Conservative candidate distances himself from Trafford colleagues
A huge pre-local election row has erupted in Trafford after an apparent split among the Conservatives over cycle lanes. Tory contender Stuart Donnelly, who is standing in the Gorsehill and Cornbrook ward where cycle lanes run along Chester Road, has moved to distance himself from a statement put out by the Trafford Conservative Association which appeared to criticise the Labour-controlled council for ‘spending £500,000 on cycle lanes’.
Mr Donnelly is part of the Stretford and Urmston Conservative Constituency Association, which does not have any elected councillors. He says that it is not part of the Trafford Conservative group on the council and ‘it does not speak on our behalf’. “But what’s being done is Stretford is catastrophic. If you want to spend half a million quid on increasing cycle safety, fix the potholes. I’m standing in one now. They are more likely to kill a cyclist than anything else.”
“The Green Party will always stand for such long-term investment and residents can vote for us on Thursday knowing where we stand, in stark contrast to the chaos and division within the local Conservative Party.”
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